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Imad

#4,921 in 2025Boys' name

Support, pillar

Imad has been given to 572 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,921 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Imad, 2025

1 in 166,000

Imad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Imad: meaning, origin, and history

Support, pillar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Imad means

Imad means “support, pillar”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 572 boys were recorded with the name Imad between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,800 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,721 in 2020 to #4,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,244 in 2015 to #4,921 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Imad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,921
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Imad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Imad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Imads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Imad was born before 2003 — so the typical Imad is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
572
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Imad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+828
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,800
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,323
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.82×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.2%
Peak was 2001 (21)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,800
1994

Spellings of Imad

Imad is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 21.6% against Imad's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Imad is used

Across 1910–2025, Imad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,626,817 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Imad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Imad around the world

Where Imad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #815
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Imad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,800
Best rank ever
#3,800
1994
Peak year
2001
21 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
572
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Imad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Imad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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